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Blender Artists Community Rules

You must be at least 13 years old to use this website and/or Sites. CGC doesn’t knowingly collect information of visitors below this age in accordance with the COPPA of 1998.

The forums of BlenderArtists.org are a great source of information about all sorts of Blender-related topics. You can find help here if you are having a problem, view other people's artwork and be inspired, or just hang out and talk. However, since a lot of people visit our forum we must enforce some rules, to keep all posts clear of any unwanted content and maintain a welcoming atmosphere for all users

Therefore, if you would like to post in our forums, please keep the following rules and regulations in mind. Enjoy the forums!

Forum Restrictions and New Users

Signatures. - These restrictions apply to keep the forum in a readable form.

Signatures are restricted to 270 Characters and 3 lines of text (single-spaced)

Pictures are not allowed in signatures

Threads that need review by Moderators before they are public

Any new thread in forum “Tutorials,” these threads are restricted to threads that contain tutorials.

Limited Rights on new users. - These restriction apply to prevent spam and bot attacks

New users are users with a post count below 10 (Hint: add some valuable critics to the “Forum Gallery“)

No URLs allowed in posts

General conduct

Conduct Guidelines

Be courteous and polite by showing respect to the opinions and feelings of others. Use of the forums is a privilege, not a right.

Think before you post. You are responsible for your own words and any harm they may cause.

Don't flood the forums with irrelevant and unnecessary posts or spam. BlenderArtists is a professional, moderated forum. It is a place to talk about all things related to Blender and computer graphics in general. It is NOT a free speech forum.

No beating a dead horse - Constantly repeating a point, complaint, or otherwise bringing up an issue over and over does not improve the quality of discussion. There are better ways to bring issues to attention.

No "versus" threads - Rhetorical comparisons of one software over another are not allowed. These bring needless debate that too often becomes contentious. If you wish to empirically compare render engines, modeling features, or something else of the sorts, this can be fine. Just keep it focused on the data.

No quote battles - Line-by-line arguments, particularly those on semantics of individual sentences do no one any good. These take away from the quality of the thread and discussion. If an issue cannot be resolved in a post or two then it should be taken to private messages, or dropped.

Copyright and infringement

All trademarks and copyrights are owned by their respective owners.

Comments are owned by the Poster.

If you are a copyright owner and you feel your work has been stolen please contact the moderators of the BlenderArtists Team

General Policy

All registered members of BlenderArtists are considered users.

All users are subject to all rules.

The Moderation Team consists of all Administrators (Admins) and Moderators (Mods).

All Moderators are subject to the final decisions of Administrators.

All violations of rules are to be reported to Moderation Team by users

Use of private messages, bad post tags and emails is encouraged.

The rules are implemented by the Moderation Team.

General Forum rules

Harassment

Any private message containing possible harassment should be referred to the Moderation Team.

Any post or thread containing possible harassment should be referred to the Moderation Team.

Users should refrain from replying to any inappropriate content.

Definition of harassment: words, conduct or action, usually repeated or persistent that, being directed at a specific person, annoys, alarms, or causes substantial emotional distress in that person and serves no purpose.

Any thread, private message or post found to be addressed to a particular user with intent to harass will be deleted with no shadow.

Procedure for investigation of harassment:

After deleting any suspect threads or posts, contact both parties requesting details of harassment.

Upon further review, including permission of harassed, deleted posts may be undeleted and user unbanned.

Any user found to be guilty of harassment is to be banned, for such time as is deemed necessary.

Potentially destructive, hurtful, and unapproved content

Inappropriate content should be referred to the Moderation Team.

Inappropriate content:

Content containing primarily the following subjects and/or the promotion of one opinion over another are considered inappropriate.

Subjects include, but are not limited to, topics such as racism, sexism, religion, xenophobia or sexual preference.

Humiliating, derogatory, anti-social or inflammatory remarks aimed at any group of people, with or without the intent to start a group response are considered inappropriate. This includes racial remarks in the form of jokes, underhanded comments, and racial slurs.

Unnecessarily violent, crude, or obscene imagery, including scenes depicting themes such as rape, hate crimes, or any other brutality is considered inappropriate.

Politics, political expression and political propaganda are considered inappropriate.

An exception may be made, after group consideration, to allow content in such forum as is deemed appropriate.

Requesting, providing information about, or advertising illegal activities or the results thereof is considered inappropriate.